Actual county by county results of Jokers election. Rotting bits are where he won.
Posted on 08/08/2009 8:33:08 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
Imagine it's four years ago and an aide to President George W. Bush posted a blog on the Whitehouse.gov Web site that bemoaned Internet criticism of the Iraq war, then continued: "These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversations.
Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about anti-war protests that seem fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."
Substitute the words "health insurance reform" for "anti-war protests," and you get the exact wording of a blog posted by Macon Phillips, the White House director of new media, on Tuesday.
"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his politics to the White House," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wrote in a letter to President Obama. "I suspect that you would have been leading the charge in condemning such a program."
No lie.
Now I don't think Obamaland was working on an "enemies list" - as some conservatives have charged. But I do want to note how deftly the left has abandoned its old rallying cry, "Dissent is patriotic."
Democratic leaders have taken to dissing health care dissenters who show up at town-hall meetings conducted by members of Congress visiting their districts - and not just for the boorish behavior of the loudmouths.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, dismissed protesters as "AstroTurf" - artificial grassroots support. On MSNBC's "Hardball," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., exhorted the media to investigate town-hall protesters, as "This is just all organized."
And: "You in the media have to take a look at what's going on here. This is all planned. It's to hurt our president and it's ....
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Actual county by county results of Jokers election. Rotting bits are where he won.
That sounds like the adulation given Kim Jun-Il from North Korea. Separated at birth?
I was thinking about the FOIA and hpw we could throw a monkey wrench into the media operations at the whitehouse. What if we could get millions of people to file FOIA requests about this flagging. In order to cause more chaos, we should each make sure that someone else sends something with our email address or names so they actually have something to find. If they report back they don’t have anything, there would be potential additional action that could be taken. Just a thought....
Hey, I’ll report you if you report me!
I hear that 0bamaCare is going to euthanize old people. What do you hear?
See Video: Are you paying attention now?
Scary stuff.
For the 1st time in my life I actually fear my government!
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